Happy 19 years! I’m not much of a Lord of the Rings fan either. I did get the Gandalf Arrives set because I was in Waterloo’s LEGO store and none of the LotR sets were in stores in my area yet. Plus it’s the only scene I can remember when I watched it in video and tech class.

Heh. I just knew you’d find some way to work in the LOTR series; repurposing the One Donut… er, Ring as an anniversary gift was certainly a nice way to do it. Congrats!

On another note, while I appreciate the difficulties of designing minifig renditions of existing characters, doesn’t Gollum really look more like an inhabitant of the Friends-verse? Perhaps living in Heartlake City’s underground sewers, “Phantom of the Opera”-style?

We used that set for a parts draft at Brickworld, and I’m in total agreement — it was worth the cost of the set just to do this one strip. Yeah, even a castle guy like me reserves the right to say “Meh” to LOTR sets.